The headless monks were quite eerie... Not sure how I felt about the rest of the episode. It seems like an awful lot of set up that never went anywhere, even for a to be continued episode... River Song's reveal wasn't all that shocking, especially after

On the table next to George's bed, theres a crane that looks like its made of LEGOs, but I cant place the set it would come from or if it's even LEGO. Has anyone else that's seen this episode noticed this, or spotted any other LEGOs on the bookshelf?

Hm, what are your guys' thoughts on the season overall now that it's over?

Personally, I thought it was a rather mixed bag. You had your great episodes (Doctor's Wife, Girl Who Waited, God Complex) mixed with some decent at best episodes (Night Terrors and Wedding of River Song) and then some truly awful episodes (Good Man Goes to War, Let's Kill Hitler, Closing Time). I don't think the idea of an arc-intensive season really worked (especially when half the episodes aren't really related to the arc), and then much of the supposed mystery and secrecy unraveled itself far earlier than it really should have.

There were some really good bits sprinkled throughout, but overall I think it was just a big bunch of "meh". But hey, Matt Smith was consistently excellent, which at least makes this better than the double-whammy of Series 2 and 3. Still not nearly as good as 1 or 5, though, not by a long shot.

joecrowaz on Flickr wrote:Flynn you little wussy with a purple robed fairy for an icon,

Doctor Who? being the question that brings silence to the universe was explained by Dorium Maldovar. On the fields of Trenzelor, at the fall of the Eleventh, a question will be asked - one that must never be answered. And Silence must fall when the question is asked. And the silence will fall because the Doctor will never reveal his name.

I think that's an attempt to bring it back to the Classic Series way of doing things, where the Doctor is a relative unknown just passing through the universe doing what he pleases. After about 5 years of "The Doctor is the greatest thing to ever happen to this planet and this universe in the history of everything", where he was so feared and legendary and etc., I believe this is a welcome change.

joecrowaz on Flickr wrote:Flynn you little wussy with a purple robed fairy for an icon,

Was that not so incredibly awesome?! I don't think I've been so overwhelmingly euphoric/stunned/just completely in awe over a TV show in a very long time... the way everything fitted in, and finally we saw the Great Time War! Moffat is a brilliant executor of long-term plans in this show, and somehow I manage not to see them coming.

dWhisper wrote:Yeah, I'm still processing all of that. But my god, that whole end, with Baker as the Curator. I was goosebumpy.

Baker was definitely the icing on the cake... I started watching the old series in reruns on TV around 2000 as a kid, and I would have to say he was my favourite at the time.